Pointers and arrays C

Pointers and array are closely related to each other. Pointers can be used in all places where arrays are used.
If we have an array int n[5].
And a pointer to an integer int *pt.

Then pt = &n[0] or pt = n (since name of array is synonym for address of first element). ,sets ‘pt’ to point to the 0th element of n. i.e. ‘pt’ to contains the address of n[0].

pt + 1 points to the next element of array i.e. n[1] and
pt+i points to the ith element of the array
if pt points to n[0]
*(pt + 1) are contents of n[1] and
*(pt + i) are contents of n[i]

The following table gives a clear picture.

n Array of integers
pt pointer to integer

Example (2) prints the value and address of each element using pointer as well as array to show the relation between the two.
/* Program prints the value and address of elements in an array
using array as well as pointer to show relation between the two */

The combination of array name with its subscript is equivalent to the combination of pointer with its offset.
Now let us write example(1) in array topic using pointers.

/* example (1) in array chapter rewritten using pointers
to show the relation between arrays and pointers */

Here pt is a pointer to an integer. pt = marks, assign pt to point to the first element of array ‘marks’ .Since scanf requires address of variable, as i changes from 0 to 9, (pt + i) gives the address of corresponding array element. *(pt + i) gives the value at the address (pt + i) points to.

It is to keep in mind that a pointer is a variable but array name is not a variable, hence assignment, increment, decrement operations can be done on pointers but not on array names.